Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) playbook for nations

This playbook is a comprehensive resource designed to help countries understand, implement, and harness the potential of Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs) to accelerate digital transformation while fostering inclusive and sustainable economic development. By delving into the intricacies of DPIs, this playbook highlights the role that such infrastructures play in enabling interoperability, scalability, and growth across sectors.

The primary purpose of this playbook is to equip countries with the tools and knowledge necessary to effectively assess their current DPI landscape. By conducting a thorough diagnostic analysis, countries can identify existing strengths, challenges, and gaps within their technological infrastructure. This playbook will enable countries to determine the required elements for a sector-agnostic DPI foundation.

A fundamental aspect of this playbook is the emphasis on key design principles and a building-block approach. By focusing on resource reuse and adopting a strategic and sustainable transformation strategy, countries can maximize the impact of their DPI initiatives. The playbook outlines step-by-step guidance, combining existing resources with new developments.

The playbook facilitates defining distinct goals and objectives for countries, placing digital inclusivity at its core. By doing so, countries can attain success, effectively advancing their prioritised DPI roadmap through policy interventions and stakeholder mapping, while aligning their ambitions with essential policy actions.

The playbook also attempts to address funding and outreach strategies, emphasising the significance of securing financial support and engaging the right set of stakeholders and change managers.

This DPI playbook acts as a call to action for policymakers and stakeholders who have been trying to define a DPI roadmap journey for their respective countries, solving for security and scale as a sustainable, affordable digital transformation strategy.

Government leaders, decision makers, digital government leaders and champions, technologists, funders, international development agencies, civil society organisations as well as entrepreneurs could use the playbook to arrive at a structured approach for digital transformation through DPIs.